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Acidic oceans eating away at skeletons in Pacific, researchers say
2014-01-15 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
US News and World Report: Researchers studied how algae in the Pacific Ocean off Tatoosh Island in Washington state were being affected by global warming. No bones about it: As oceans have grown more acidic from global warming over the past decade, they've been eating away at the skeletons grown by a certain strain of alga -- likely demonstrating how climate change affects organisms and biodiversity, a new study says. Researchers working at Tatoosh Island in the Pacific Ocean off Washington state found that the alga...
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Bayou Casotte fish kill followed discharge of acidic liquid from plant
2013-08-22 07:28:32| Waste Management - Topix.net
The fish kill caused by low pH levels in Bayou Casotte has left a mess, and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and Mississippi Phosphates Corp. are working to clean up the bayou.
Oceans 30 percent more acidic? Mostly true
2013-07-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PolitiFact: Most people have heard about what will happen if humans keep pumping large amounts of carbon dioxide into the air as we burn more fossil fuels, including warmer temperatures, melting polar caps, rising sea levels, stronger storms and big changes in the types of plants and animals that can survive and thrive in particular regions of the world. "But wait," as an evil TV pitchman might gleefully declare, "there's more." On June 12, 2013, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island,...
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Acidic ocean hits Pacific Northwest
2013-03-25 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
C and EN: The path to Cape Flattery is a twisty, moss-carpeted tunnel underneath red cedar and Douglas fir trees that crowd Washington states rugged coastline. Micah McCarty scrambles down the forest trail to a shoreline below, leaping across tide pools and slippery rocks to a point where waves break on shellfish beds. Weve reached the northwesternmost point of the U.S. mainland, a craggy tip of the Olympic Peninsula that belongs to the Makah tribe. This group of Native Americans has been fishing and...
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